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flip
verb- to become very angry or agitated; to go temporarily crazy US, 1950
- Wigged? Christ, it looks like he flipped. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 57, 1951
- “You look like some other cat.” “Baby,” said the wolf, “you’re flippin’!” — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 46, 1955
- Whereas if you goof (the ugliest word in Hip), if you lapse back into being a frightened stupid child, or if you flip, if you lose your control[.] — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 351, 1957
- [P]erhaps some day he would flip and kill one of them. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 215, 1957
- [S]he’s having therapy, has apparently very seriously flipped only very recently[.] — Jack Kerouac, The Subterraneans, p. 11, 1958
- “Well, he’s flipping,” said Jean looking after him, “flipping right out of his skull.” — Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree, p. 151, 1958
- That he’s getting married has her flipped. — Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, p. 47, 1958
- Now I was fighting for my life. They must have thought that I’d flipped, the way I was coming back on them. — Jamie Mandelkau, Buttons, p. 24, 1971
- Hey, what the hell’s with you Tony, you flipping out? — Saturday Night Fever, 1977
- Hey, turkey. What the hell you doing out there praying your behind off. You done flipped or something? — Piri Thomas, Stories from El Barrio, p. 38, 1978
- The first time she wore it was right after Mark smoked grass at home, had an allergic reaction and flipped out. — Sandra Bernhard, Confessions of a Pretty Lady, p. 50, 1988
- PCP is alright but it’s dangerous gear [...] I can imagine fucking flipping out on it. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1988
- She was a very nervous and high-strung person and it flipped her out at the time, not so that she bcame a hospital case, but it did cause her to become frigid. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 16, 1990
- I’m not going to do what you think I’m going to do, which is flip out. — Jerry Maguire, 1996
- to become enthusiastic and excited US, 1950
- She was as ugly as a pan of worms, but when I saw those sandwiches with the crusts cut off, boy, I flipped! — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 59, 1959
- They all came in to congratulate me. The whole campus flipped. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 92, 1964
- She really flipped over you. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, p. 124, 1971
- to induce a betrayal US, 1980
- If there ever was a time to flip him against his old crew it was at that moment. — Nicholas Pileggi, Wise Guy, p. 265, 1985
- The mission: Save LaFreniere first, and flip him as a witness against Angiulo second. — Gerard O’Neill, The Under Boss, p. 210, 1989
- You don’t see what that motherfucker’s doing? How he’s trying to flip you, turn you against me? — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 230, 1999
- to betray; to inform on US
- You don’t have to larceny me–I won’t flip on you. I’ll never flip on nobody again. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 14, 1960
- They wanted me to flip on the guy who had sold the stuff to me. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 138, 1965
- Before Barboza “flipped” in 1967, no one had laid a glove on the wily Angiulo. — Gerard O’Neill, The Under Boss, p. 72, 1989
- 10–4 flipped in less than a week. — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family, p. 76, 2003
- “So they say I either flip or I go down for the whole ride.” — James Lee Burke, Pegasus Descending, p. 99, 2006
- to gesture UK
As used in FLIP THE BIRD - I just flipped off President George / I’m going out dizz knee land. — Dada, Dizz Knee land, 1992
- Also rubbing your eye or scratching your ear with your middle finger is a good way to flip off an authority figure without getting caught. — Editors of Ben is Deed. Retrohell, 1997
- But when she was the billboard of Ashley, lying prone and twisted like an accident victim, she could not resist flipping if off[.] — Francesca Lia Block, I was a Teenage Fairy, 1998
- Horns blew, She flipped them off — Robert Crais, L.A. Requiem, 1999
- [He] was flipping gang signs with four others in similar colours. — Diran Adebayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 58, 2000
- on the railways, to step aboard a moving train US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 62, 1977
▶ flip a bitch
to make a u-turn US- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, Fall 2000
▶ flip a trick
(of a prostitute) to have sex with a customer US
Far less common than to “turn” a TRICK.- She was scratching and nodding and flipping car tricks at Sunset and La Brea when I got back to L.A. two months later. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 169, 1979
▶ flip the bird
to gesture in derision with a raised middle finger US, 1968- Did he flip her the bird again? — Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, p. 344, 1978
- I just flip ’em the bird / And keep goin’, I don’t take shit from no-one[.] — Eminem (Marshall Mathers), Criminal, 2000
▶ flip the bishop
(of a male) to masturbate UK, 2005
Plays on FLIPFUCKBASH THE BISHOPflip the bone
to extend the middle finger in a rude gesture of defiance US- [A]ll Jeff did was flip the bone at his old man which is a very dirty way of telling somebody where to get off. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 48, 1957
▶ flip the grip
to shake hands US- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 24, 1945
▶ flip the lip
to talk US- And she is always flippin’ the lip about him bein’ such a weary Willie, the citizens of the burg, even the hepcats, mark him solid. — Haenigsen, Jive’s Like That, 1947
▶ flip your gut
to evoke sympathy or sadness US- — Jim Crotty, How to Talk American, p. 352, 1997
▶ flip your lid; flipflop your lid
to lose emotional control US, 1961- She must have flipped her lid if she likes that. — Margaret Weiss, The TV Writer’s Guide, p. 103, 1952
- That fart face done flipflop his Whiteass lid for sure! — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 170, 1961
- Ever since he passed his written test for the police force he flipped his lid! — Ernest Pendrell, Seven Times Monday, p. 20, 1961
- “People are always flipping their lids around here,” Minelli observed[.] — L.H. Whittemore, Cop!, p. 84, 1969
- He finally flipped his lid. He walked around with a bible in his hands, would come up to you and ask, “What did you say?” — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 178, 1990
▶ flip your stick
to move your penis during an all-cavity strip search US- — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 21, 2002
▶ flip your wig
to lose your mental composure US, 1959- He flipped his wig when it was finished and they took him to a sanitarium. — Chandler Brossard, Who Walks in Darkness, p. 52, 1952
- Nate took away her emotional security and she flipped her wig and snuck into the locker room and hacked up his athletic equipment. — Max Shulman, I was a Teen-Age Dwarf, p. 33, 1959
- “The trial’s been postponed because the Puerto Rican chick, dig, has lost her baby and look like she flipped her wig too, lost her mind.” — James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk, p. 202, 1974
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